First, we’re talking about one of the greatest emerging nations of the world – and I mean both economically as well as for its uniqueness and beauty. Brazil ROCKS!

Second, this was the first time that Social Media had some relative influence, with a lot of conversation going on on Twitter, Orkut and others.

And finally, because this was an unprecedented moment in Brazilian history: Dilma Roussef, long time staff member of President Lula‘s government, and one of the key Ministers for the past years, won the election.

Obviously, all the main local media and even a few talented designers made some great pieces of design to illustrate this historical moment, so, enough politics, and let’s just enjoy the infographics – and, please, all of you awesome non-Portuguese speaking Inspired readers, forgive me for making this post, that can really be a bit hard to understand.

Nevertheless, Visual Inspiration was never limited by language, right?

The team directed by Alberto Cairo and coordinated by Marco Vergotti, and with designers Gerson Mora, Luiz SalomÃ£o and Rodrigo Cunha, among others, made some of the most visual appealing infographics of this election. Here are some examples, and I also recommend a visit to the Blog maintained by the team, brilliantly named Faz Caber – that can be translated to “Make it Fit”.

One of Brazil’s major publication, the Estado de SÃ£o Paulo’s team brought some very interesting analysis immediately following the elections. According to Eduardo Asta, ” Estado de S.Paulo was the first newspaper in Brazil to publish a series of very complete voting maps with all the results. Other newspapers and magazines took one or more days to have it. In some cases, our maps were used as reference and reproduced.”

“Having these maps published so fast is the result of planning and team work. Art departements from online and printed newspaper worked together to depict correct data with correct visualization. More than 10 professionals, from art, programming and newsroom, were involved on this operation. Some of them: Carlos Lemos, Daniel Lima, Gisele Oliveira, Glauco Lara, Niza Souza, Regina Elisabeth, Rubens Paiva and Rodrigo Fortes.”

“It was the first time readers could see how different Brazil can be. Left map is depicted in the usual geographic projection. Right map was deformed by number of voters. Try to compare Amazon state: It disappears completely. First map almost colors Brazil red. Second map shows a better balance between red and blue, reflecting the final voting result.”

Monitoring webservice Twiteleitoral, created exclusively to measure the impact of the elections on Twitter, made an infographic about the buzz during the last phase of the presidential campaign, and compiled all the data on an interactive map:

Interactive

Of course that we also had a lot of Interactive visualizations on the internet. Here are some of those:

I could have brought a lot more, but I think that we’ve had enough politics this year. Let us just hope that, as the new government takes over, we can see all this great talent and professionalism from all the designers and reporters showcased here, illustrating the growth we all expect for Brazil.

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About The Author

Tiago Veloso is the founder of Visual Loop, a collaborative digital environment for everything related to information design and data visualization. He lives in Brazil, and you can connect with him online on Twitter and LinkedIn.